My Uncompromising Commitment To Duty Poem by Pheko Motaung

I am a teacher
It is my uncompromising commitment
To duty to motivate

I am a child
It is my uncompromising commitment
To duty to obey

I am a parent
It is my uncompromising commitment
To encourage

I am the government
It is my uncompromising commitment
To duty to offer clean leadership

I am a citizen
It is my uncompromising commitment
To duty to be responsible

Judge me kindly by the honest
Truth I say now
Judge me harshly if later I am found

To have disheartened
Their true hopes and
Their just aspirations

Let the law be merciless
If I make myself guilty of
Mutiny for I will not only

Shame my parents but
I will put the future of my
Country at grave risk somehow